Information technology consulting services

Increase operational effectiveness

Many companies today face significant challenges in taking out cost and unlocking business value from their application portfolios. Large, complex application portfolios require significant investments of time and money just to maintain. Disconnected and inflexible systems, fragile coupling, duplication of function and data increase the costs of routine and business-mandated changes. A focused overall application portfolio management strategy is essential to ensure a company’s business agility and ability to innovate.

As organizations grow and merge, the accompanying growth of their IT often results in a mishmash of technologies and platforms that is difficult and costly to manage. This complexity makes is difficult for IT to support business requirements and adapt to changes in strategy and business direction. Organizations should align the current IT strategy, resources and investment to changes in business direction and corporate strategy. Additionally, organizations should ensure that their enterprise architecture allows quick reaction to changes in the marketplace. Our assessments can help you define the best ways to drive rapid cost savings – given your business and application-related challenges – and enable you to be future ready.

• Application Portfolio Assessment (515KB)

  Access industry and business best practices, leading-edge technologies and expertise beyond what is available in-house. The assessment enables you to quickly identify areas for process improvement and to develop a roadmap that includes priorities and strategies to better align the overall enterprise portfolio with the requirements of the business processes and models.

• IT Strategy and Performance Assessment (429KB)

  Better align your IT resources, investments and business strategies and increase IT flexibility to adapt to your changing business needs. This assessment utilizes best practices, and IBM’s unique, proprietary tools and methods.

• Enterprise Architecture Assessment (423KB)

  Achieve stronger alignment between IT strategy and business goals. This service uses IBM's expertise with enterprise architecture best practices and analytical tools to speed analysis and provide comprehensive recommendations for your enterprise architecture strategy.

• SAP Strategic Alignment Assessment (471KB)

  Align your executive team on what to do with your SAP environment in the next five years. The SAP strategic alignment assessment provides a comprehensive assessment of your existing SAP enterprise portfolio and related support elements in order to align these with your business goals and strategic direction.

• Oracle Application Healthcheck (421KB)

  Improve the efficiency of your IT investments. This assessment helps ensure that you are maximizing your opportunities for reducing operating costs, including purchasing, indirect labor costs, and system support costs.

• Cloud Application Virtualization

  Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your IT resource utilization. This engagement demonstrates the benefits of application virtualization by virtualizing a set of your application services and assessing the ability to optimize computing resources and simplify existing development and test management infrastructure.

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